Azure Certification Jobs in the West Midlands

Microsoft Azure Certification
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for Azure Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 172 197 70
Rank change year-on-year +25 -127 +172
Permanent jobs citing Azure Certification 24 50 306
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.54% 0.69% 4.59%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.95% 2.63% 11.15%
Number of salaries quoted 23 40 36
10th Percentile £40,250 £37,500 £28,750
25th Percentile £44,000 £53,750 £32,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £67,500 £51,250
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +31.71% -6.82%
75th Percentile £71,875 £88,750 £75,313
90th Percentile £80,750 £107,500 £83,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% -7.14% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
West Midlands

Azure Certification falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 2,525 1,901 2,745
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 56.55% 26.26% 41.19%
Number of salaries quoted 572 1,277 969
10th Percentile £27,750 £25,500 £28,000
25th Percentile £36,925 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,344 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.69% -4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,475 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £58,193
% change year-on-year - -5.49% +5.81%

Azure Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Azure Certification as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Azure Certification in the West Midlands

Azure Certification
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Azure Certification in the West Midlands.

Salary trend for Azure Certification in the West Midlands

Azure Certification
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure Certification in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Azure Certification in the West Midlands

Azure Certification
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Certification within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 30 April 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Birmingham +2 9 £60,000 -14.29% 7
Warwickshire -16 6 £70,000 +47.37% 4
Coventry - 5 £62,500 - 5
Herefordshire - 4 £40,000 - 1
Azure Certification
England

Azure Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Business Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (4.17%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 24 (100.00%) Azure
2 10 (41.67%) AWS
3 7 (29.17%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (29.17%) IaaS
3 7 (29.17%) PaaS
4 6 (25.00%) Microsoft Purview
5 5 (20.83%) Azure Sentinel
5 5 (20.83%) Entra ID
6 4 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (16.67%) Route 53
7 3 (12.50%) Azure Functions
7 3 (12.50%) Power Platform
7 3 (12.50%) Serverless
8 2 (8.33%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (8.33%) Azure Key Vault
8 2 (8.33%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (8.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 2 (8.33%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (8.33%) GitHub
8 2 (8.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (16.67%) Firewall
1 4 (16.67%) HTTPS
1 4 (16.67%) SD-WAN
1 4 (16.67%) VLAN
1 4 (16.67%) VPN
1 4 (16.67%) WAN
2 1 (4.17%) Network Security
2 1 (4.17%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (12.50%) Power BI
1 3 (12.50%) SQL Server
2 2 (8.33%) Data Lake
2 2 (8.33%) Data Mining
3 1 (4.17%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
3 1 (4.17%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (4.17%) DB2
3 1 (4.17%) Metadata
3 1 (4.17%) MongoDB
3 1 (4.17%) Spark SQL
3 1 (4.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (4.17%) ERwin
General
1 8 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 5 (20.83%) Public Sector
3 4 (16.67%) Advertising
3 4 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (4.17%) Finance
5 1 (4.17%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 8 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
1 8 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
2 7 (29.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (25.00%) Lead
4 4 (16.67%) Architect
4 4 (16.67%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (16.67%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (12.50%) ICT Engineer
5 3 (12.50%) ICT Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (12.50%) Technical Leader
6 2 (8.33%) Azure Infrastructure Lead
6 2 (8.33%) Data Architect
6 2 (8.33%) Data Scientist
6 2 (8.33%) Lead Data Scientist
6 2 (8.33%) Senior Data Scientist
6 2 (8.33%) Technical Manager
7 1 (4.17%) Cloud Architect
7 1 (4.17%) Infrastructure Manager
7 1 (4.17%) IT Manager
7 1 (4.17%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (16.67%) ARM Templates
2 1 (4.17%) Middleware
2 1 (4.17%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.33%) Cloud Native
1 2 (8.33%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (4.17%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (4.17%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (4.17%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 6 (25.00%) Windows
1 6 (25.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (4.17%) Linux
2 1 (4.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (4.17%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (37.50%) Cost Management
1 9 (37.50%) DevOps
2 8 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 7 (29.17%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 7 (29.17%) Infrastructure Management
4 6 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 6 (25.00%) Cloud Security
4 6 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 6 (25.00%) Migration
5 5 (20.83%) Agile
5 5 (20.83%) Collaborative Culture
5 5 (20.83%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (20.83%) Cost Optimisation
5 5 (20.83%) Identity Management
5 5 (20.83%) Mentoring
5 5 (20.83%) Privileged Identity Management
5 5 (20.83%) Proactive Management
5 5 (20.83%) Security Operations
5 5 (20.83%) Stakeholder Management
5 5 (20.83%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 12 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 9 (37.50%) Python
3 3 (12.50%) SQL
4 2 (8.33%) R
5 1 (4.17%) Bash
5 1 (4.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (4.17%) Scala
Qualifications
1 10 (41.67%) AWS Certification
2 9 (37.50%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (16.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 4 (16.67%) CompTIA Security+
4 2 (8.33%) Degree
5 1 (4.17%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 1 (4.17%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (4.17%) CISM
5 1 (4.17%) CISSP
5 1 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (4.17%) DBS Check
5 1 (4.17%) HND
5 1 (4.17%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.33%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (4.17%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.17%) NCSC
2 1 (4.17%) NIST
2 1 (4.17%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (20.83%) Active Directory
2 4 (16.67%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (8.33%) Docker
4 1 (4.17%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (45.83%) Terraform
2 4 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (8.33%) Kubernetes
4 1 (4.17%) Ansible
Vendors
1 17 (70.83%) Microsoft
2 4 (16.67%) Databricks
3 3 (12.50%) VMware
4 1 (4.17%) IBM
4 1 (4.17%) Oracle
4 1 (4.17%) SAP
4 1 (4.17%) Zscaler